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本帖最后由 jinhua 于 2010-4-29 22:02 编辑
到了加拿大，选择哪个城市总是热门话题，而且经常是围绕着几个大城市在做比较。
萝卜白菜，各有所爱，的确如此。
其实，在加拿大，城市之间的迁移并不是很难的，当你感觉这个城市不适合你，你可以迁到另一个城市居住；当你在这个城市居住了一段时间，而另一个城市有更好的机会，当然也要转移一下。不论你是联邦移民，还是魁省移民，都可以自由迁移在加拿大各个城市之间的。
综观蒙城，的确是许多还没有决定究竟要在哪个城市定居的人们的过渡的好地方---多元文化，方便的公共交通，较低的生活费用，优厚的学习补助政策，闲散的风气，，，，，，
不少转去多伦多，温哥华，卡家，爱城的移民，都是从这里起步。当然，也有的因为喜欢上这个城市而没有离去的。
其实，在选择去哪个城市定居上，有不少人是由于有亲友在某个城市生活，自然就聚拢过去了。正像我们早年的移民一样，广东人上金山下南洋，山东人闯关东，北京天津城里卖煤球儿的定兴人，都是这样一个跟着一个，一家跟着一家，帮帮带带，就在一个城市互相照应的一代一代的生存下去了。
在加拿大，常有这样的说法，国内的投资移民很多都在温哥华，而能力强一些的去了多伦多，寻找高收入的到了阿尔伯塔，而犹豫不定，想观望一下，又想读书充实一下的技术移民到了蒙城。的确有这样的现象。或许是因为温哥华离国内最近，来回飞，照顾国内的资产企业比较方便；多伦多大工业城市，又有众多卫星城环绕，就业机会尽管有竞争，但还是比蒙城容易找到；再有阿尔伯达由于石油工业发展，城市跟之迅速发展，更有容易找到的工作机会和高工资吸引了众多的急于求职生存的人们。
当今国内，很多人的生活工作都很不错，为了到加拿大，忍痛离去，而到加拿大这个大农村为了啥？
目标明确就好。
几年前有要到加拿大的，也是在这个网上的朋友和我探讨过，而今有的已在准备递交入籍申请，一经拿到国籍，立刻告别加拿大，回国发展，当退休了，或孩子大些了，再回来。毕竟，当今的中国的发展很少有其他国家可以比较的。
也有的，一下来即刻开始加强语言学习，然后从杂货店做起，现在是开着林肯车悠闲的在湖畔河边垂钓，过着小康生活了，，，
时间光阴箭，年华似水流，抓住光阴，把住年华，希望，成功都在你的眼前。
偏题了？
选择哪个城市，转帖一些资料，根据每个人不同的目标，去参考分析
The Real Story of Alberta Oil Industry Pollution
by author Rose Balcom
My parents, Robert and Ethel Kerns, bought a farm in 1946 that is located outside a little town called Wimborne in Central Alberta. About 1967, Mom started raising purebred Arabian horses.
Our first devastating experience with the gas/oil industry was the sulphur plant about five kilometres east of the farm. Sulphur emissions covered the pasture. The mares consumed the grass, which caused abortions, stillbirths and weak foals with a grey discharge coming from their lungs. Their fetlocks never developed properly and they couldn’t stand up or walk right. They were born dying and crippled.
It was apparent to us that the sulphur plant was doing this, but our family veterinarian discouraged Dad from legal action due to lack of proof. My parents did complain, however, but the oil and gas industry spent millions of dollars fighting the little guy–and still do.
In the late 60s or early 70s, the Pincher Creek incident also occurred. When poisoned farmers and the gas industry went to court, the case ended with a grilling landowner persecution by industry, the health authorities and the judicial system. What little "good" that came out of our complaints and Pincher Creek was the fact that the company in charge built the smokestack higher, so the "killing" emissions went further and were not so concentrated on our land.
That was then. We have since learned much about the effects of gas/oil pollution on mammalian and other life forms. But suppression of all negative effects of industrial pollution has become the order of Canada, and to a certain extent, the US.
The Canadian government has long since sold out our beautiful country for money. The cumulative effects of air, soil and water degradation are now a haunting reality from which there is no escape. Our children don’t even know what "natural" is. Now they never will.
Another Nightmare
My family’s second nightmare with industrial pollution is far worse and has become so severe that it has taken over our lives.
Our water started turning foul last winter. In a matter of weeks, it was black with oil. We left when I got burnt by H2S when running the kitchen tap. Before that, our family dog and cat died for no apparent reason, and my mother’s horses became so sick that I called a vet. Nothing helped until we moved the animals off the acreage.
We lost everything. All of my family’s money, our work, toil, hopes and dreams. It was worse than coping with health problems as a result of living and bathing in tainted water and the horror of seeing your animals die.
We put up with all that happened and is still happening to us. Still, nothing changes quickly. What has been in place in Canada for so many years is ingrained in our society.
In the meantime, my elderly, handicapped parents do not have years ahead of them, and due to the loss of their new home, are forced to live in a run-down house at their old place. They have no choice!
Outrage at Oil Companies
It has taken a full year of yelling at Alberta Environmental Protection in Red Deer to get officials to acknowledge we have a water pollution problem. We even had the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Board out to our farm. That day, we found dead birds in the yard and yellow scum floating on our dugout. (Last summer, this dugout started bubbling. Gases were coming right to the surface of the water. You couldn’t stand at the edge of it because the gases made you instantly sick!)
The inspectors found hair, fur or fibre in our aquifer; we believe the cause to be dead or decaying rodents. Various agencies have also found unnaturally high levels of gas on our property. When a small grass fire broke out on May 14th, believe me, the fire department was scared!
The Alberta government doesn’t seem to know what to do with us. We have been telling everyone since last February that this place is ready to blow up–not due to eco-terrorism, but because of an unscrupulous industry, a deceitful government and bad economic policy.
Oil Industry Activist
Allan Johnstone is a 69-year-old retired oilfield technologist. After years of field research into the negative effect of gas flaring and venting, he retired from the industry to devote his life to helping others realize the deadly effects associated with these criminally toxic practices.
Johnstone was instrumental in bringing many of the dangers associated with oil and gas refining to the public’s attention during the Alliance Pipeline hearings conducted by the National Energy Board of Canada in 1997 and 1998. Unfortunately, the revelations of this massive document never reached the light of day.
The Ludwigs approached him when they began fighting legal battles with the Alberta Energy Corporation over the devastating effects that "sweet gas" (benzene) and "sour gas" (hydrogen sulphide–H2S and sulphur dioxide-SO2) flaring were having on the health of their family, livestock and the surrounding ecosystem.
Sixty years ago, Johnstone’s family lived in Inglewood beside a British American gas refinery where his dad worked at Turn Valley, next to the H2S flare pits. His father died of massive stomach cancer at the age of 32.
As Johnstone puts it, "There has been a massive cover-up over the years regarding the carcinogenic properties of benzene. Benzene will penetrate human garments, damage all parts of your body, cause cancer and contribute to heart attacks and stroke. Also, human proximity to AC electric power/ electromagnetic waves is a catalyst for benzene ring chemical reactions in the body."
Rose Balcom resides in Didsbury, AB.
Globe investigation
Toronto's new murder capital
A bullet hole is seen in the wall inside the entrance way at 2468 Eglinton Avenue West were a male youth was shot in the leg during a drive-by. Anne-Marie Jackson/The Globe and Mail
York-Weston is suffering through a battle between the Gatorz and the Five Point Generalz that has left six dead in the past six months. A temporary surge of officers has stanched the bloodshed, but what happens when they leave?
ZT 如下：
致命真菌在北美扩散
2010年04月27日消息，被称为“致命真菌”的“隐球菌”，近年来在美国太平洋岸西北部地区造成五十多个导致感染肺炎或脑膜炎的病例，其中并有约十人丧生。最近这种经由空气传播的隐球菌正在美国西北部和加拿大卑诗省逐渐扩散，并已出现基因变异的新菌株。
美国研究人员指出，源自热带地区的隐球菌最早于一九九九年被发现在北美的加拿大现踪，藉空气传播，原先通常只会造成器官移植病人、艾滋病患、缺乏免疫能力的人感染肺炎或脑膜炎，然而基因变异的新菌株显然也会对健康的人构成威胁。而且新菌株造成的廿一个感染病例，致死率高达二五%。
据了解，这类病人常见的征状包括持续数周的咳嗽、剧烈的胸痛、呼吸困难、头痛、发烧、夜间盗汗及体重减轻。病患可施以抗真菌药物治疗。
不过美国公共卫生官员认为，隐球菌目前在北美地区扩散，只需提醒民众注意并留意相关讯息，还不需为此发布警告。
医界指出，虽然隐球菌是经由空气传播，但民众不必因而避免户外活动，毕竟暴露在隐球菌的环境中而致病的案例仍属罕见。
据信有致命风险的隐球菌存在于土壤和树木中，目前断定不会经由人与人接触或人与动物接触传染。隐球菌除了会使人生病，也已发现会导致猫、狗、羊驼和羊染病。
闲来跟贴胡乱谈，看来我要把它转入我的胡乱篇里存档一下。 |
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最近在考虑要不要去蒙城了....
发表于 2010-3-31 04:11:18
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